Aravind Adiga’s first novel since his Man Booker Prize–winning best seller The White Tiger (“Amazing . . . One of the most powerful books I’ve read in decades” — Deirdre Donahue, USA Today): a stunning, darkly comic story of greed and murder that lays bare the teeming metropolis of Mumbai. Real estate developer Dharmen Shah’s offer to buy out the residents of Vishram Society—a formerly respectable, now crumbling apartment complex that abuts the infamous Dharavi slums—is more than generous. But one man stands in the way of Shah’s luxury high- rise: Masterji, a retired schoolteacher who will not leave his home in Vishram’s Tower A. Shah is a dangerous man to refuse, but as the demolition deadline looms, Masterji’s neighbors—friends who have become enemies, acquaintances turned co- conspirators—may stop at nothing to score their payday. An electrifying, suspense-filled story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, peopled by brilliantly drawn, unforgettable characters, Last Man in Tower exposes the hearts and minds of the everymen and women of a great, booming city—ordinary people pushed to their limits in a place that knows none.
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Aravind Adiga
Aravind Adiga nasceu em Madras (atual Chennai) em 1974, mas viveu parte da sua vida na Austrália e nos Estados Unidos. Estudou nas universidades de Columbia e Oxford e foi colaborador de publicações tão prestigiadas como a revista Time ou o Financial Times. Seu romance de estréia, <i>The White Tiger</i> (O Tigre Branco, 2008) teve grande repercussão no meio literário, conquistando o The Man Booker Prize, o prêmio mais importante do Reino Unido, em 2008. Além de ser indiano, Adiga tem também cidadania australiana. Atualmente é jornalista freelancer e vive em Mumbai, na Índia.
7 Livros
10 Seguidores
Tamil Nadu, Índia